As a result of U.S. Invasion and occupation of Iraq, today Iraq is more ... Destruction of educational institutes ..... during the war and subsequent occupation.

IN IRAQ BY WAR AND OCCUPATION. The destruction of schooling. The assassination of academics. Refugees and education. What to do. Mike Powers ...

By Hugh Gusterson | 2 February 2012

Until the 1990s, Iraq had perhaps the best university system in the Middle East. Saddam Hussein's regime used oil revenues to underwrite free tuition for Iraqi university students -- churning out doctors, scientists, and engineers who joined the country's burgeoning middle class and anchored development. Although political dissent was strictly off-limits, Iraqi universities were professional, secular institutions that were open to the West, and spaces where male and female, Sunni and Shia mingled. Also the schools pushed hard to educate women PDF, who constituted 30 percent of Iraqi university faculties by 1991. (This is, incidentally, better than Princeton was doing as late as 2009.)

The Ministry of Education in Iraq, a range of currently available reports and other .... a picture of the current state of girls' education in Iraq, statistics on education...... It would therefore be useful to pilot a scholarship scheme to contribute to the ...

May 10, 2013 – Between March 2003 and October 2008, 31,598 violent attacks againsteducational institutions were reported in Iraq, according to the Ministry...

Sep 28, 2012

In May, construction firms paid by Iraq's Education Ministrybegan tearing down hundreds of old school ...

Oct 10, 2010 – "What is happening now is the mistake, if not the crime, of the occupying forces, who put in office people who lived most of their lives outside ...

Published on Mar 15, 2013

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Iraq’s education system was once the jewel of the Middle East. Today, it is struggling to catch up, with five million children out of school, according to a 2007 survey.